To
mark the 2014 observance of Día de los Muertos,
Vallen created a suite of twenty monoprints based
upon an ancient Aztec glyph representing death.
Essentially a printed painting, no two images are
alike. The images were painted directly on a sheet
of glass in oil paint, and burnished with a wooden
spoon; each color was "pulled" separately.

LIBROS
NO BOMBAS (BOOKS NOT BOMBS) (view
large image)6" x 11" inches - $6.50 for a pack
of 5 cards

Printed
on heavy card stock, the postcards are blank on
the backside and are available in packets of 5 postcards
for $6.50, plus $3.50 for shipping in the U.S.

Teachers,
parents, and students are encouraged to buy the
packs of cards and share them with friends and associates.

WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE?! (view
large image)Signed
silkscreen print - 15"
x 16" $100-
Vallen's
1980 street poster eventually appeared as a cover
of the L.A. Weekly newspaper at a time when people
thought war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
was imminent. This print is now included in Under
the Big Black Sun: California Art 1972-1981 at
the MOCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles.

1984
(view
large image)Signed
silkscreen print - 29"
x 21" $100-
Around
200 of these black and white silkscreen prints were
published and distributed around Los Angeles on the
eve of 1984. The artwork was of course inspired by
George Orwell's novel concerning a dystopian society
ruled through propaganda, fear, and raw police power.

NO
HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (view
large image)Offset Poster. 19 1/2" x 22" inches
- $5.00Originally
created in 1988, Vallen's No Human Being is Illegal
poster helped popularize the slogan - "No Human
Being is Illegal."

Published
as a bilingual street poster in conjunction with
a 1988 drive conducted by the Los Angeles based
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), to secure
the rights of undocumented Central American war
refugees in the U.S. The slogan on the poster became
a catchphrase that has since entered the lexicon
of today's defenders of immigrant's rights. To oppose
the rising tide of discrimination aimed at the undocumented
in the U.S., from Arizona's racist SB1070 anti-immigrant
law, to efforts by members of the U.S. Congress
to overturn the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
(which guarantees citizenship to children born on
U.S. soil), Vallen republished his poster in August
of 2010.

In
early 1979 Vallen carved this linoleum block portrait
of Pat Bag, the bass player for The Bags, one of the
first and most notorious late 70s punk rock groups
in Los Angeles. In late 2010 Vallen worked with master
printer John Greco of Josephine Press in Santa Monica,
California, to finally publish the suite of prints
that should have been issued in '79. In all likelihood
"Pat Bag" is the only linoleum cut portrait of a central
figure in punk to have been created anywhere in the
world as punk was actually unfolding.

Giclée
PrintsAll
Giclée prints are hand signed by the artist. Giclée (pronounced
"zhee-clay"), is a French word that refers to the
spraying of ink. The prints offered here were created with
archival inks on high quality fine art paper (Arches, Cold
Press). Vallen's limited edition prints were published by
the master printers at Opus Editions.

AMERICA
NOVIA MIA(view
large image)
Lithograph. 21" x 29" $300.00-
Vallen's lithograph is a tribute to the dispossessed
and impoverished people of the Americas. Only a few
of these hand-signed and numbered prints are available

EL
SALVADOR PRESENTE(view
large image)
Lithograph. 14" x 18" $250.00-
Vallen's 1994 lithograph is dedicated to the Salvadoran
people and their struggles for peace and justice.

Giclée
Punk Portraits
All prints are hand signed by the artist. Each historic
artwork is suitable for framing and represents punk as it
first appeared in L.A. during the late 1970s.

COME
BACK TO HAUNT YOU (view
large image)Giclée
Print - 10"
x 14" $200-
In 1980 Vallen created this cover artwork for SLASH
Magazine, the premiere punk rock publication on the
West coast. It proved to be the magazine's very last
edition.

SANDINISTA
(view
large image)9
color Silkscreen print - 11"
x 17" $50-
Printed
in 1986, this silkscreen was created to commemorate
the assassination of Augusto César Sandino, the legendary
Nicaraguan patriot who was murdered on February 21,
1934. Sandino's silhouette is depicted on the flag
waved by the anonymous individual.

Edition
of 50 prints.
Each print is hand-signed and numbered by the artist.

NUCLEAR
WAR?!... THERE GOES MY CAREER! (view
large image)Silkscreen
print - 15"
x 16" $100-
Vallen's
1980 print appeared as a cover of the L.A. Weekly.
The print was also included in The Path of Resistance,
an exhibition of contemporary protest art held at
New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 2000.

SABRA
(view
large image)Silkscreen
print - 23
x 29 inches.$100-
Vallen's print was dedicated to the victims of the
1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres. The print was pulled
by master
printer Richard Duardo (RIP) at his Modern Multiples
studio in Los Angeles, California.